21 December 2020

Healthcare utilization among migrants to the UK

Healthcare utilization among migrants to the UK: cross-sectional analysis of two national surveys.
J Health Serv Res Policy. 2021 Jan;26(1):54-61. doi: 10.1177/1355819620911392. Epub 2020 Mar 19. 
  • We explored health service utilization among migrants to the UK across primary care, inpatient admissions and maternity care, outpatient care, mental health, dental care and physiotherapy. This study finds that newly arrived migrants tend to utilize less health care than the UK population and that this pattern was at least partly explained by better health, and younger age.